Corporate Background

I have been a Systems Engineer for over 30 years, working on every conceivable platform — from mainframes to micros, from Unix to Windows. The hottest information delivery platforms is still the World-Wide Web. The two development platforms for web applications that I work with are Microsoft®'s Internet Information Server and Oracle Web Application Server. MicroApplications, Inc. is a Microsoft® Certified Partner, as well as a Microsoft® Software Advisor. I represent the Executive Software and Intuit QuickBooks as a registered agent or affiliate.

Much of my Web Application development is focused on Active Server Pages (ASP) with Active Data Objects (ADO) or the more recent ASP.Net technology. Database web applications can be hosted on Windows Internet Information Server, and standard HTML is dynamically generated using standard Visual Basic, C# (C Sharp), or JavaScript that runs on the Server! Call us at (407) 496-2525 for details.

I actively started ASP.Net development in 2001, and belong to and actively support the Orlando .Net Users Group. Also, try our ASP.Net Zip Code Distance Calculator here. This small application gets its results from an XML Web Service we wrote in C#, called ZipService that we developed and which communicates with a database based on U.S. Census Bureau data and which is hosted on MicroApplications' SQL Server 2005 installation. Here is the WinForms SmartClient version written in Visual Basic.Net. You will need the Microsoft® .Net Framework 1.0 or above installed on your local machine for this to work, and you should temporarily add http://www.microapplications.com in Internet Explorer Tools, Options, Security, Trusted Sites and enable the running of .Net components not signed with Authenticode as well by specifying a Custom Security Level. Smart Client Technology is new with .Net and can be seen as bridging the gap between rich desktop applications and web applications as shown below.

Smart Clients combine the best features of rich and thin client technologies.

An example of a database-intensive web site, for which we developed the application logic and database back-end, can be found at Navigate Now. You can log in as guest and use the password, guest, if you don't mind seeing data entries from other 'guests.' Navigate Now is truly a web application, where the user has the ability to insert, edit/update, and manage their own career-oriented personal information. If you are a web site developer with a strong graphics capability, but wish to extend into the exciting web application arena, please call us.

Today, Business-to-Business (B2B) web applications are being developed at a frantic pace. We have supported this approach for several years. A primary example can be found at MBX Logistics, L.L.C.. You cannot access the customer and vendor areas of this web site, but browsing around, you will see how the customer and vendor portions of MBX Logistics' back-office have been exposed to the Internet through a 3-tier application. Carriers who subscribe to MBX Logistics' Web service can access all of their currently assigned loads, and either accept or reject individual Loads, thereby creating the Purchase Order process via the web. View a screenshot of a sample Load Rate Agreement. Through careful application of business logic and via scheduled applications (or, daemons for all you geeks reading this, and you know who you are), we have automated the carrier assignment of nearly 60% of MBX Logistics' scheduled trips every day and have automated the calculation of all accessorial charges for every load that MBX brokers. We then duplicated the process for Martin-Brower's Canadian operations. If you are looking for ways to expose all or a portion of your customer-relationship data to your customers via the web, please call us.

You can see one of our standard commercial web sites at ServCorp, Inc. It is an ASP.Net site. MicroApplications, Inc. developed several major Point-of-Sale platforms (both host-to-host and universal access) for PTT-Telekom, Inc., a local Winter Park pre-paid long distance facilities-based carrier that brought this technology to Central Florida, as well as Orion Telecommunications Corp. We were able to help these clients grow into major players in this market. We developed an eBusiness for Real Estate Inspections, Appraisals, etc. on speculation, but the principal was never able to attract sufficient venture capital. The prototype for Access2re.com is accessible here. For Triangle Reprographics, Inc., we have been the catalyst for much of the behind the scenes business rule implementation on both the public extranet (Online Order Forms) and the private Intranet (a completely integrated Job Tracking System delivered in the browser and available as a commercially available Intranet/Extranet application that is Verified for Windows Server 2003 by VeriTest). Contact PLP Digital Systems for details. We have also developed a complete online eShop for Triangle, where their customers can directly purchase reproduction paper and film supplies with a credit card, and have the orders delivered with their regular reprographic orders. We most recently wrapped up phase one of a new Home Schooling eCommerce site (GPA SmartStore®), that has the potential to become the number one resource for Home Schooling in the world. This site represents a major modification to the fantastic commercially available ASPDotNetStoreFront product. I've also had the opportunity to work with some great folks at Coleman Technologies designing and implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) application and a GPS tracking application using Virtual Earth and Component Services to integrate CTI tracking devices reporting in from around the US.

ServCorp, Inc.

Triangle Reprographics, Inc.

GPA SmartStore®

Coleman Technologies, Inc.

I also maintain my Oracle technical awareness via membership in the Oracle Technology Network. We developed one of the first remote client-server applications using Oracle and Gupta's SQLWindows back in 1991. It was called the Defense Instructional Technology Information System (DITIS) and was a repository of information about DoD-funded or developed courseware. We then converted the Query front-end of this system to the Web in 1993. It, too was one of the first database web applications in existance. DITIS was taken over by the DAVIS program in 1997. A link to the current DAVIS/DITIS repository that we began work on in 1989 can be accessed here.

I've found the Office Developer Edition useful in building custom small business applications with Microsoft® Access or Visual Basic and Microsoft® Data Access Objects (DAO). We have developed a web page displaying the Reddick VBA Naming Conventions that you can see here. Microsoft® Access can also be used as a great user interface and reporting front-end for serious back-end databases like SQLServer and Oracle via ODBC or OleDB. We have even used it with Interbase. With the advent of .Net, the promise of managed Office Extensions is fullfilled with the Microsoft® Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft® Office System.

Experience:

MicroApplications, Inc., Maitland, FL
Principal, 1/85-Present

Providing systems integration/development and consulting services to Central Florida small-to-medium sized businesses since 1985. Expertise in Windows and Unix desktop and network (local and wide-area, including Internet) line-of-business applications in any number of languages and host platforms, Web site and application development using any combination of HTML, Java, Server- or Client-Side Scripting, Visual Basic, C#, C/C++, SQL, and PL/SQL, on Web Application Servers like IIS (Active Server Pages or ASP.Net) and Oracle, and specialized hardware/software interfaces and integration (including Point-of-Sale and X.25/Frame Relay/LU 6.2). Also, if you are looking for Technical Representation in the Central Florida area, we can help!

Star Mountain, Inc.*, Alexandria, VA
Principal Engineer, 12/89-2/97

Directed $1 million/year⁺ Orlando Operations, and lead numerous research and development projects in the fields of Information Systems, Training, Human Factors, and Organizational Development.

*merged into Provant in 1998

Allen Corporation of America**
Senior Research Engineer, 11/77-11/89

Started as a Research Engineer, and ended up directing Internal Research & Development.

**acquired by The Singer Corporation in 1987 — long before there was a world-wide web!

Education

I graduated from The Catholic University of America in 1971 with a Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering Degree, and went to the University of Florida for a year of graduate school in Coastal & Ocean Engineering. This educational background has helped me immensely in solving complex systems' integration problems, and I am proud to be an alumnus of both universities.

Go Cardinals!

Go Gators!

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